Pearu Peterson wrote:
>With the revision 1516 of scipy core arange seems to have ref.counting
>problem:
>>>>>>>from scipy import *
>>>>prod(arange(2,101,dtype=object))
>>>>>>>>>Illegal instruction
>>>>>>>from scipy import *
>>>>a=prod(arange(2,101,dtype=object))
>>>>a
>>>>>>>>>Illegal instruction
>>>>>>>from scipy import *
>>>>a=arange(2,101,dtype=object)
>>>>b=prod(a)
>>>>b
>>>>>>>>>9.3326215443944102e+157
>>>>Anyone can reproduce these segfaults?
>>Yes, I can.
We need continued testing of the object arrays. These can be tricky to
get right. Several object-array-based bugs are in Numeric, in fact,
which led to some not using them.
-Travis